Tameing Charlie

[just jack 998]

ed cook has one the now it works with the dogs in the field and is totally domesticated in the house

[MAIN MAN 277]

it wouldnt work with my dogs mate! is a funny thought though

[fireman 10,917]

I knew a old traveller fellow(Ben Pepper)in Market Harbrough who had one on a chain for nigh on 11 years(thats what he said,but it was a very old fox indeed),the vet came out and trimmed it's nails and coat(it got really thick around it's neck)a couple of times a year.It was dug as a cub and reared by his misses,they let it go when it was older but just hung around the site driving the dogs mad so they put it back on a chain.It looked happy enough but only he could go near it,it arched it's back and hissed and spat like a cat at anyone else who tried to go near.Can be done but i wouldn't ever try to tame one,wild animals live in the wild,hence the title wild.

[Guest hornman]

my mrs has had 3 orphan cubs in total one cub who loved her but not keen on the rest of us and the second two brother and sister they were bottle fed they were easy to tame they were like 2 puppys wagging tails jumping up to b picked up all the time you wouldnt believe it it broke my wives heart when they went to their new country home they used to watch tv sat on her lap will look for pics tomorow an post them

[Guest bullterrier]

i seen a program were some old fella was walking one off the lead but it had a collar on and came when called he was walking it around the village he lived in . ...john

[Paid 935]

Since when were bears pack animals ?

[gunman2008 0]

a old couple up our way had one for seven years lived out side people used 2 come and see it in her back garden it was so tame you could stroke it so yes it can be done

[Paid 935]

Since when were bears pack animals ?

all animals show leader ship

 

 

I would call it more "survival of the fittest" than leadership in most cases.

I.e dominance of the weak, not actual leadership. True pack animals are actually quite rare

in the big scheme of things.

 

Bears, and foxes for that matter, are solitary animals when not raising young or breifly mating.

As are most cats, mice ect.

Edited January 26, 2009 by Paid

[biffo 0]

not easy, but it can be done. there is a fox domestication program interestingly enough click

[Paid 935]

Yes, seen those on tele, they became very dog like, tail wagging ect.

Some russian fur farm i think ?

[undisputed 1,664]

Catcher from in here had one as a boy it followed him about like a dog I considered it a couple of years ago but ended up letting it go back where I caught it

[Halfinch 51]

not easy, but it can be done. there is a fox domestication program interestingly enough click

 

Mmmm, interesting, seems it can be done over generations, but also a lot depends on the individual fox by the sounds of it .

[just jack 998]

all animals can be maned to anything as long as they are a pack sort. rats mice cats dog big cats bears the lists goes on if your dog attacks a fox and you cant get that dog to back off then your not the pack leader

so your know the next DOG WHISPERER

[Malt 379]

all animals can be maned to anything as long as they are a pack sort.

 

Bollocks. The African Wild Dog is a pack animal and they are imposable to tame, even if they're hand reared.

[Paid 935]

Yeah, rats are pack (comunial) animals, not disputing that.

Bears are not, they may group in rich feeding grounds, but

thats a short period of time, and dominated by the strongest.

It's far from the same thing.